I love this!!! I have a couple lessons on found poetry that I’ve done with my eighth graders – and I think I might incorporate this idea into it. I think it’ll really appeal to the MP3 player obsessed middle-school set!

Here’s mine:

I don’t like you

When you walked by, I saw a small tear in your eye
I realize that I’m just naturally inclined to go and let you down
Last night he said oh baby I feel so down
The truth is I thought it mattered

When you walk in the bar
We were too wasted to close the window
I keep the one I love in the freezer
I keep on falling in love

There is a city by the sea
Love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Walking oh so slowly
Woke up today in a van

Walking in the snowy street
I bombed Korea every night
Now I’m a union man
Paid programming helps me sleep at night

Nobody ever had a dream ’round here
We know of an ancient radiation
Imagine me and you, I do
Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two